When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.

The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.

When I was young, I don't know how, I spent all my time in the presence of married women telling me their troubles. And when I said 'Why did you marry?' they said, 'Oh I married to get away from home.' And when I said, 'And why don't you leave him?' they gave the saddest answer in the world: they said, 'Where would I go?' So they stayed with men they didn't like because they had nowhere to go.

Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, "I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him."